Housed

​An inquiry focused on the home and the everyday; interior places, recesses of the psyche, the hallways of the mind. A selection of artists considering the meanings of domestic space, exploring our understanding of intimacy and immensity, house and universe.

 

The home can function as a nest for dreaming, a shelter for imagining. The most fragile shell, the most delicate window, the most simple rendering - handled with grace. 

 

Not only our memories, but the things we have forgotten are "housed." We are an abode. Abiding within ourselves. 

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Jill Tate (b. 1983) reaches to uncover the fundamental nature of reality in her paintings. Standing inside the architecture we inhabit and questioning the building blocks of reality, her practice surveys the visible and invisible structures that shape our shared and personal spaces. Tate renders her fabricated alternate reality in warm terracotta, a colour that connects the idea of home at every interface. Through her homemade pigments Tate connects this iron oxide with the cosmos, the planet, and our own bodies. Tate stakes home as the centre of our consciousness and the whole universe at the same time: regarding it as both a physical and psychological structure permeating all levels of experience. Tate lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She received a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Contemporary Photographic Practice from Northumbria University in 2005 and completed the Turps Correspondence Course 2023. She was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant for Groundwork in 2022 and in 2021 was awarded an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant for Degrees of Freedom: a collaborative project with artist Matt Denham. Jill has recently exhibited at Frieze Art Fair, London (2024); Seventeen Gallery, Lodon (Solo Exhibition, 2024); Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles; WORKPLACE, London; The Sunday Painter, London; Galerie Marguo, Paris; OHSH Projects, London; Unit 1 Gallery, London; and BALTIC Gateshead.

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Tereza Cervenová (b. 1991, Bratislava) received her BA in Photography from Middlesex University in 2014 and her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. Tereza Cervenová’s work is characterised by the juxtaposition of delicate imagery and soft light with pressing references. Nothing in life prepares you for life. Growing up in Bratislava, Slovakia — Tereza describes how she felt a pull and expansiveness every time she left her country, she knew she wanted to leave and find a new home, even when she was very young. Cervenová tilts her lens to humanism; the connected and the real. A lot of her work is about intimacy and freedom, and the ethics that surround the sacred space between people. Intimacy is the most raw, unique, charged thing that we all share. The tension between those two absolutes is what inspires Cervenová. Her work is included in the collections of The National Portrait Gallery, London (UK); John Kobal Foundation, London (UK); TATE Artist’s Book Collection, London (UK); Fine & Decorative Art Collection, Eton College, Windsor (UK). In 2019, Cervenová was a finalist for the MACK First Book Award, Nominee for Foam Paul Huf Award. She was awarded the Bloomberg New Contemporaries prize in 2017 and was a finalist for the European Photography prize in the same year. Selected exhibitions include Site Gallery (2022); Jerwood Arts, London (2021;) ALMA ZEVI, Venice (2021 & 2020); Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2019); UK Parliament, London (2019); Royal College of Art Summer Show, London (2018); Museum of London, London (2018).

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